Weekly Roundup – December 3, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

How Health Plans Can Take Advantage of GIS Technology. The use of geographic information systems has helped Inland Empire Health Plan track quality and compliance metrics and ensure member services are located in the right place. Colin Hung spoke to Eric Dick and Darren Moser at IEHP about advancing their work with GIS and getting the leadership team to buy in. Read more…

Addressing Burnout in Non-Clinical Staff. Conversations about burnout in healthcare need to include non-clinical staff. At the CHIME Fall Forum, John sat down with Hannah Ellerbee at Divurgent about what leadership should look out for, whether it’s inadequate staff training or poorly performing technology tools. Read more…

IT’s Role in Reducing Energy Use and Addressing Inequity. In healthcare, the impacts of reducing medical waste, improving data center energy efficiency, and increasing staff diversity go beyond the bottom line. John spoke to Dr. Erin Jospe at World Wide Technology about how these initiatives also have a positive impact on patients and the community. Read more…

Who Will Push Healthcare’s Digital Transformation? In the latest Healthcare IT Podcast, John and Colin debate whether EHR vendors, startups, consultants, health systems, or industry outsiders will lead digital transformation efforts in healthcare. They also discuss where transformation is needed the most – and why it hasn’t been as widespread as we’d all hoped. Read more…

Direct Primary Care Well Represented at #HLTH2022. Direct primary care is growing at a much faster clip that traditional primary care. At HLTH, Colin spoke to Kyna Fong at Elation Health and Zak Holdsworth at Hint Health about why the market is growing, why self-insured employers are interested in DPC, and how technology enhances the clinician and patient experience. Read more…

Payment Solutions Are Here to Stay – and Getting More Mature. Billing is a significant administrative expense for healthcare practices, and delayed patient payments only add to the problem. Many practice’s have adopted payment solutions, and d’Artagnan Osborne at Kareo said the future of patient payment is self-processing payments and offering payment plans. Read more…

Why TEFCA Is Different From Past Interoperability Efforts. With the QHIN application process underway, Therasa Bell at Kno2 discussed how TEFCA is focused on real, meaningful data exchange – and how this extends beyond EHRs to cover the plethora of devices that support care throughout the hospital. Read more…

Technology’s Role in Value-Based Care Success. While the industry is headed to value-based care, 56% of primary care providers are concerned about how VBC will impact practice operations. Hugh Lytle at Equality Health discussed the value of technology that’s tailored to value-based workflows and provides real-time insights into patient outcomes. Read more…

Lessons From the Customer Experience With Pizza. Any pizza chain would go out of business if it offered a typical clinical patient encounter experience, Tim Dubes at Documo said. In other words, healthcare can learn a lot about process automation and digital information sharing from the average pizza joint.

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Brian Eastwood

Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003.

When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England. When he needs a break from cardio, he's usually reading a history book.

   

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